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“I was scared of everything – leaving, moving forward, everything.”
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
“We take turns becoming the one who leaves. We make ghosts of ourselves and the ones we once loved. Like seasons we change, we transition into the next life. We try and fail to forget. We grow, outgrow and are outgrown. But none of it ever, ever seems to hurt any less.”
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
― How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
“There’s a reason most religions encourage prayer: Language strengthens beliefs.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“The idea that we are better off with one person for the rest of our lives is not an innate truth of existence. It’s a belief we want to be true. Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize. Sharing a habitat, a life, is for sure harder than being alone. In fact, coupled living seems virtually impossible, doesn’t it? To find another person to spend all your life with? To age with and change with? To see every day, to respond to their moods and needs?”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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